It should be illegal to opt people in to this.

Imagine if your bank just opted you in to renting out your mortgaged home.

Abusing your personal data like that should be a crime in basically all jurisdictions.

I just tried this. Following the instructions in the article I turned off "Smart Features" and Gmail proceeded to put all of my incoming mail into the same folder. Apparently having a separate spam folder is considered a smart feature.

Gross. This is blatantly manipulative.

Quitting Gmail is a good way to turn it off.

Well that could be a good thing potentially. Marketers love using AI to compose emails, and all my Gmail account gets are marketing emails. Can't wait for the snake to start eating its own tail.

Gmail is going to be mighty disappointed wth the content of my emails: I've been using that account for nearly two decades as a backup repository for my digital paintings. The only person that sends email to that address is myself. Best online storage ever.

I've tried to keep on top of not allowing ai to crawl through my personal data on various services. Google going through my emails is like going through my physical letters, it's extremely intrusive.

It's getting tiresome. I think next year I'll have a go at self hosting my emails. Email is one of the big things I have kept online and the same as everything is linked to it. It's like your digital address.

Most users are just quietly accepting the significant loss of privacy, especially nowadays as a lot of our lives are online. I don't believe there will be any pushback from users, governments need to step in but they are seemingly unwilling to.

So I'm guessing that means they've helped themselves to your entire email history already, and this is just going forward, and until they alter the terms again, but they wanted some legal liability protection. Not that I wasn't expecting them to have already done it, but yuk.

Make sure you look for the 2 different ones. The smart features across platforms is pretty bad.

I don't know about y'all, but my email consists 95% of confirmation emails and password reset requests. Not saying this isn't a major privacy violation, just that it doesn't seem like a good source of data unless the purpose is to make automated emails but with extra steps.

gmail has been reading your emails from the beginning and have even been caught when they said they were not. It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people are to have ever even used googol since the beginning.

Well that makes me feel a bit better about sending markov chain generated text to my other e-mail accounts.

God dammit I am so sick and tired of this. I'm paying for the extra storage and everything and I still have to deal with this privacy bullshit.

I feel like I've been running around chasing these types of things on almost every software I use now.

I don't seem to have a Workspace setting. I assume that's because I don't use Google Workspace or am I missing something hidden?